Western Australia

A woman accused of murdering her newborn baby, whose body was found in a Western Australian caravan park toilet more than 20 years ago, has been granted bail so she can return to Victoria.
Cold case homicide squad detectives allege the boy…

About one tonne of illicit drugs has been found on a Western Australian island after a yacht ran aground on a reef, with a British man and a French national charged over the massive seizure.
Members of the public on Monday told police about…

A Western Australian couple who beat their adopted daughter and forced her to sleep in a cold, dark shipping container have both been jailed for four years.
The pair, who cannot be named to protect the child’s identity, adopted her aged…

ACT Policing has admitted it unlawfully accessed citizens’ metadata a total of 3,365 times, not 116 as previously disclosed in an explosive commonwealth ombudsman’s report on Monday.
The new disclosures include a total of 240 cases that…

Perth father Anthony Harvey who murdered his three young children, wife and mother-in-law has been sentenced to life in prison with no hope of being released.
A man who admitted using knives to murder his wife, three young children and…

A truck driver who attacked two Finnish nationals as they hiked the popular Bibbulmun Track in Perth has been sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison.
Matt Lewis Whittaker, 37, ran down Queralt Tobarra and Tuomas Tani, both 33,…

A Western Australian policeman who tasered a driver during a scuffle following a random breath test has been found guilty of two counts of assault, a conviction the police union said would cause ramifications “across every police…

A Perth man has become the first person to be charged under Western Australia’s new revenge porn laws for allegedly creating fake Instagram pages under his ex-girlfriend’s name and sharing intimate photographs.
The 24-year-old, from…

A Perth man has pleaded guilty to murdering his three children, wife and mother-in-law.
Three-year-old Charlotte, two-year-old twins Alice and Beatrix, and their mother Mara Lee Harvey, 41, were killed by Anthony Robert Harvey, 24, at their…

The then chief of Western Australia’s vice squad made a “bedtime confession” to his lover that he’d killed brothel madam Shirley Finn, an inquest into her 1975 execution-style murder has heard.
After hearings in 2017 and last year, the…

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